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Hit and Run Historyis a WGBH web-only series guest-produced by local filmmakers. In this prologue to the series, the crew tracks down the oldest and rarest of all American coins: The Columbia and Washington Medal.

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The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA.